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A silent revolution? : gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930 / Peter Baskerville.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baskerville, Peter A.
- Series:
- Hugh MacLennan Poetry
- Hugh MacLennan Poetry ; v.24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Canada--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Women.
- Women--Canada--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Women--Employment--Canada--History--19th century.
- Women--Employment--Canada--History--20th century.
- Marital property--Canada--History.
- Marital property.
- Women--British Columbia--Victoria--Economic conditions--19th century--Case studies.
- Women--British Columbia--Victoria--Economic conditions--20th century--Case studies.
- Women--Ontario--Hamilton--Economic conditions--19th century--Case studies.
- Women--Ontario--Hamilton--Economic conditions--20th century--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal [Quebec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Salvaging beauty from grief's wreckage in the towns and wilds of post-cod Newfoundland.
- Contents:
- 1. Gender, Wealth, and Investment: Victoria and Hamilton, 1869-1931
- 2. Inheriting and Bequeathing: Women and Men in Victoria and Hamilton, 1880-1930
- 3. The Gender of Shareholders: Investment in Banking and Insurance Stocks in Ontario, 1860-1911
- 4. The 'fountain-head of all production': Land and Gender in Victoria and Hamilton, 1881-1901
- 5. Stretching the Liberal State: Legal Regimes, Gender, and Mortgage Markets in Victoria and Hamilton, 1881-1921
- 6. Gender, Credit, and Consumption: The Market for Chattels in Victoria, 1861-1902
- 7. Canadian Urban Women in Business
- 8. A Retail Dry Goods Merchant on My Own Separate Account: Gender and Family Enterprise in Urban Canada at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-368) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612864407
- 9780773577275
- 0773577270
- 9780773586840
- 0773586849
- 9781282864405
- 1282864408
- 9780773574458
- 077357445X
- OCLC:
- 609148778
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